A kit of pigeons was released on Wednesday into a symbolic flight over the Potocari Memorial Centre, which will host a mass burial of the Srebrenica genocide victims on Thursday.
500 carrier pigeons flew over the memorial complex, where thousands of victims of the mass killing from the 1992-95 Bosnian war were laid to rest.
This Thursday, 33 more victims will be buried in Potocari, on the 24th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran the eastern Bosnian enclave and rounded up the town’s Muslim Bosniaks, separated men from women and little children and systematically executed some 8,000 men and boys.
The bodies of the victims were buried in a large number of mass graves.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice later ruled that the massacre was an act of genocide.
